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                <p class="p_Glossaryitem"><span class="f_Glossaryitem">table</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext">A relational table (composed of columns).</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossaryitem"><span class="f_Glossaryitem">tagged value</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext">The explicit definition of a property as a name-value pair. In a Tagged Value, the name is referred to as the tag. Certain tags are predefined in the UML; others can be user defined. Tagged Values are one of three extensibility mechanisms in UML.</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext" style="font-style: italic;">See also:</span><span class="f_Glossarytext"> constraint, property, stereotype</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossaryitem"><span class="f_Glossaryitem">template</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext">The descriptor for a Class with one or more unbound parameters.</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext" style="font-style: italic;">Synonym: </span><span class="f_Glossarytext">parameterized </span><span class="f_Glossarytext">element</span><span class="f_Glossarytext">, </span><span class="f_Glossarytext">parameterized </span><span class="f_Glossarytext">class</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossaryitem"><span class="f_Glossaryitem">terminate</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext">A pseudostate indicating that upon entry of its pseudostate, the State Machine's execution ends.</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossaryitem"><span class="f_Glossaryitem">thread [of control]</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext">A single path of execution through a program, a dynamic model, or some other representation of control flow. Also, a stereotype for the implementation of an active object as a lightweight process.</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext" style="font-style: italic;">See also:</span><span class="f_Glossarytext"> active object,</span><span class="f_Glossarytext" style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span class="f_Glossarytext">process, concurrency</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossaryitem"><span class="f_Glossaryitem">time event</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext">An event that denotes the time elapsed since the current state was entered.</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext" style="font-style: italic;">See also:</span><span class="f_Glossarytext"> event</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossaryitem"><span class="f_Glossaryitem">time expression</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext">An expression that resolves to an absolute or relative value of time.</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossaryitem"><span class="f_Glossaryitem">timing diagram</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext">A diagram that defines the behavior of different objects within a time-scale, with visual depictions of those objects changing state and interacting over time.</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossaryitem"><span class="f_Glossaryitem">toolbox</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext">The main toolbar running down the center of Enterprise Architect, from which you can select model elements to insert into diagrams. This is also known as the Enterprise Architect UML </span><span class="f_UIControl">Toolbox</span><span class="f_Glossarytext"> and the Object Toolbar.</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossaryitem"><span class="f_Glossaryitem">top level</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext">A stereotype of package denoting the top-most package in a containment hierarchy. The </span><span class="f_Glossarytext" style="font-style: italic;">topLevel</span><span class="f_Glossarytext"> stereotype defines the outer limit for looking up names, as namespaces 'see' outwards. For example, </span><span class="f_Glossarytext" style="font-style: italic;">opTopLevelsubsystem</span><span class="f_Glossarytext"> represents the top of the subsystem containment hierarchy.</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossaryitem"><span class="f_Glossaryitem">trace</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext">A dependency that indicates a historical or process relationship between two elements that represent the same concept without specific rules for deriving one from the other.</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossaryitem"><span class="f_Glossaryitem">transient object</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext">An object that exists only during the execution of the process or thread that created it.</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossaryitem"><span class="f_Glossaryitem">transition</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext">A relationship between two States indicating that an object in the first State performs certain specified actions and enters the second State when a specified event occurs and specified conditions are satisfied. On such a change of State, the transition is said to </span><span class="f_Glossarytext" style="font-style: italic;">fire</span><span class="f_Glossarytext">.</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext" style="font-style: italic;">See also:</span><span class="f_Glossarytext"> fire, object flow</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossaryitem"><span class="f_Glossaryitem">type</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext">A stereotyped Class that specifies a domain of objects together with the operations applicable to the objects, without defining the physical implementation of those objects. A type can not contain any methods, maintain its own thread of control, or be nested. However, it can have attributes and associations. Although an object can have at most one implementation Class, it can conform to multiple different types.</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext" style="font-style: italic;">See also:</span><span class="f_Glossarytext"> implementation class</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext" style="font-style: italic;">Contrast:</span><span class="f_Glossarytext"> interface</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossaryitem"><span class="f_Glossaryitem">type expression</span></p>
<p class="p_Glossarytext"><span class="f_Glossarytext">An expression that evaluates to a reference to one or more types.</span></p>




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